well put and i understand the frustration in talking with the people who are believing Expressjet is "one foot in the grave" but your wasting your time and raising your blood pressure. As soon as you talk some sense into one person there will be another poster "i think Expressjet will be in Ch. 11 in a year." There are going to be the haters and the fear mongerers but you just have to let them be in their own little world. There are people that are a pain trying to talk to about expressjet because of their "sincere concern" (or dislike of our company).

So our training center has been scaled back, we have a healthy supply of pilots, branded has had excellent loads these past couple of weeks, and plenty of block hours to fly. Could management be gunning for a first quarter profit next year? or 4th quarter this year? Word around here is that the chances are good. Ream and Co. have supposedly hinted towards this being their goal.